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Brooke's new war on Cruise.


ACTRESS Brooke Shields Brooke Christa Camille Shields[1] (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and supermodel. Biography
Career
Shields' career as a model began in the late 1960s as an infant, and she continued as a successful child model throughout the 1970s.
 has escalated her War of the Words with Tom Cruise.

Shields branded Cruise's attack on her for taking drugs for post-natal depression 'a ridiculous rant' in an article for the New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times.

Shields, 40, wrote: 'I feel compelled to speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of women who have suffered from postpartum depression Postpartum Depression Definition

Postpartum depression is a mood disorder that begins after childbirth and usually lasts beyond six weeks.
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'I'm going to take a wild guess and say Mr Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression. To suggest I was wrong to take drugs and that instead I should have taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of understanding.'

Shields had already hit back at42-year-old War Of The Worlds star Cruise by offering to get him two tickets for Chicago, the London West End show she is currently starring in.

She sniped that she would get him an adult's ticket and a child's - a reference to his much- publicised engagement to 26-year-old Katie Holmes.

Cruise, a supporter of the controversial Scientology church, which is known for its opposition to psychiatry, labelled the drugs Shields took when she was depressed 'dangerous' in a TV interview Shields, who gave birth to daughter Rowan in 2003, added: 'If any good can come of Mr Cruise's ridiculous rant, let's hope that it gives much-needed attention to a serious disease

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Date:Jul 2, 2005
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